National Employee Benefits Day: Ten Ways to Celebrate!

Happy National Employee Benefits Day! There’s no wrong way to celebrate every benefits professional’s favorite holiday. With all you do to improve the lives of your plan participants and beneficiaries, you deserve to let loose and have some fun. Let this lighthearted list of ideas inspire your own unique ways to celebrate—perhaps through the launch of your Dr. Seuss-inspired series of children’s benefits books, Green Eggs and Hammer Clause, Hop on Pop-Up Option and The ABCs of D-cumulation.

National Employee Benefits Day: Ten Ways to Celebrate!

Top Ten Ways to Celebrate National Employee Benefits Day

  1. When your hip, super-fun colleagues talk about their upcoming weekend plans, shout “Plan merger!” and join them in the festivities.
  2. Sell certain assets to reduce volatility, and then record your version of “Another One Bites the Dust” for the benefits bio-doc Bohemian Rhapso-derisking.
  3. Ask your securities manager to fall backward into your arms as part of an investment trust exercise.
  4. Kick off your new hip-hop wellness program known as Cardio B., featuring workout songs like “Trust(ee) Issues,” “Rollin (Into Retirement Accounts),” “Best Life(cycle Funds)” “Money (Market Hedge)” and “Be Careful (With Yo’ Investment Selection).”
  5. Bring a piñata to the office. When it breaks open, it drops pamphlets on AD&D benefits.
  6. Pitch that long-awaited sitcom on insurance premiums and policies, “Will & Grace Period.”
  7. Announce the opening of a shop that mixes your two loves—affordable mutual funds and morning joe—in an investments and roastery combo called Low-Fee Cof-Fee.
  8. Team up with a streaming media company to tout the benefits of automatic enrollment by blindfolding a small group of plan participants and asking them to work their way through 48 pages of small-font forms in a dystopian horrorscape known as Check Box.
  9. Just before recycling your old life-expectancy assumptions, raise the reams of paper high into the air and dramatically announce, “I wouldn’t be caught dead using these mortality tables.”
  10. Summon all of your artistic and graphics pizzazz to make a dazzling chart depicting the historical price volatility of your company’s investment portfolio and, when your actuary takes notice of these efforts, coyly respond with “Oh, this old thing? No, this is just my *standard* deviation. But thank you for noticing.”

Learn More About Resilience in the Workplace

This National Employee Benefits Day, learn how to build your resilience while encouraging your plan participants to do the same!

If you haven’t already, be sure to register for today’s free Employee Benefits Day webcast, Building Resilience: Practical Tools to Help Your Workplace Thrive, and take advantage of these helpful resources to learn more about resilience.

National Employee Benefits Day is celebrated each year on April 2. The day recognizes trustees, administrators, benefits practitioners and professional advisors for your dedication to providing quality benefits and the important role you play in your colleagues’ well-being.

We’d love to hear how you’re celebrating the day! Share on Twitter or Facebook with #BenefitsDay.

National Employee Benefits Day 2019


Robbie Hartman, CEBS
Editor, Publications, for the International Foundation

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

Editor, Publications for the International Foundation Favorite member service: Face-to-face conferences—For the education, the speakers, the networking, the buzz of excitement, the buzz from the coffee stations and a buzz-illion other reasons, it’s hard to top our conferences. Favorite conference moment: Book signings with Captain Mike Abrashoff and attitude provocateur Alvin Law. It’s reaffirming to watch people command the stage and then earn even greater respect with the way they take time to interact and connect with individual audience members at book signings. Favorite benefits topics: Wellness, communication, work/life balance. Personal insight: Robbie values time with family and friends. Traveling to a new region is a bonus, but skipping rocks in the neighborhood creek will also do just nicely. He may be many things, and has been called most of them, but he is not a sitter and will gladly find a reason to get up from his desk.

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